I was doing this exact same thing back in 1980…lol…..I was ahead﻿ of my time I guess. Back then it was almost 20% of the coins were 40% silver and silver was about $40/oz. Good to know this can still happen.

Well, the government got savvy to it in 1970 and stopped making the coins meant for circulation out of precious metal, but banks don’t have time to sort through every coin and every piece of paper money that comes in. They are not in the business of coin collecting. Granted, some﻿ bank tellers may keep an eye out for the silver coins but most people don’t even know to look. Even still, there will always be coins that slip through the cracks and allow people like us to find them.

I go to the bank on a regular﻿ basis, purchasing rolls of pennies, nickels, and dimes (I used to get half dollars, and found a good amount of both 40% and 90% silver coins, but then I went a while and found none, and stopped). In the past couple of years alone, I must have found just shy of 5,000 wheat pennies, about 250 war nickels, and numerous silver dimes (including a few mercury and two barber dimes). Bottom-line is that people rarely check their change. With that said–good for you boochie.

Nice video. When my grandma died in the mid-1990s she left behind rolls and rolls of pre-1964 silver coins. At the time﻿ I think silver was worth less than $10/oz and I took them to two coin dealers who paid about $2500 total. I’m sure they did not pay what the coins were worth at the time but we needed to liquidate everything to raise money for a move. At today’s prices I’m sure they would have brought well over $10k if we had researched the dates and sold them for fair market value.

1964 and under is silver for dimes and quarters pennys 1958 and under are known to be wheat pennys the 1943 war nickle is 35% silver later back known as the barber coin set there was once a nickle known as a v nickle which has﻿ silver in it in 43-44 the pennys where made out of steal. if you have a copper penny from 1943 sell it it is worth a around a million.